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Sherman Dorn
“Weeks/days of learning” is well-intended bad interpretative factoid
The Institute of Education Sciences has released a new Evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund, or TIF, (after two years), which is generally solid research by Mathematica Policy Research, at least at a quick first read today. The main findings: Most of the experimental part of TIF was implemented by the schools. Some parts of the program […]
Who will tell you that your utopian school-improvement gambit has been tried before?
Jack Schneider is the star of Amy Scott’s Marketplace piece last Friday on the XQ competition to redesign high schools: [P]eople have tried to reinvent high school before. “That idea is as old as students sitting in desks and a teacher lecturing at the front of the classroom,” said education historian Jack Schneider, an assistant professor at […]
Kudos to the U.S. Department of Education
Hold onto that blog entry title, folks — it’s going to be pretty rare around these parts. Two events this weekend justify the praise: The Saturday-morning release of institution-level data on loans, paybacks, income, and other data, including some data specific to Pell-grant recipients. Even more to its credit, the department made tools available so […]
Why a state supreme court struck down a charter-school law
A week ago, the Washington State Supreme Court ruled that the use of common-school funds for charter schools violated the state constitution, and that the state’s 2012 charter-school law as a whole was invalidated as a consequence. I think some charter-school supporters are a bit emotional, from Rick Hess to Robin Lake. Lake went further than Hess and suggested that […]
Causation cadge
Note: this post is a sort of mental marker, as I am partway thinking through a particular issue and do not want to lose my place. One of my colleagues, Micki Chi, has divided causal modeling into two sorts, the type with narrative structures and the type without, which she calls emergent and has some evidence […]